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Date Sent: 2013-02-04
Freedom's Phoenix Global Edition for Monday, February 4, 2013 AM edition |
US military expands its drug war in Latin America -- 100th Birthday U.S. Federal Income Tax
Prince George’s considers copyright policy that takes ownership of students’ work -- Senate plan would give Napolitano the final say on border security -- Big brother to log your drinking habits and waist size -- Florence student suspended over picture of gun -- White House Warns: Don't Photoshop Obama Gun Pic -- Nebraska Lt. Gov. Sheehy quits after revelation of 2,000 improper late-night calls -- No-money-down mortgages are back -- Chicago murder rate far worse than during Al Capone 'gangland' days -- Gas Prices Heading Up Again -- 169,000 Americans Drop Out of Labor Force in January As Unemployment Ticks Up -- Happy Israel suggests responsibility for Syria airstrike -- Iranian Oops: US violated own sanctions buying Tehran's oil for war? --
Egypt on Edge: 'A few handshakes won't change desperate reality' --
Shocking Numbers That Show The Media Is Lying To You About Unemployment
In America -- Government and Top University Studies: Fluoride Lowers IQ and Causes Other Health Problems -- Afghan government responds to torture charges -- Egypt to probe police brutality case -- Amid domestic change, Cubans march to the polls -- Texas man
arraigned on murder charges in shooting of "American Sniper" -- Government
Protects Criminals by Attacking Whistleblowers -- Rev. Jesse
Jackson Says Gun Supporters Are Domestic Terrorists -- Obama
green light for Israel to strike Iranian-Syrian-Hizballah military
links -- Ernest Hancock - SAFE, Second Amendment is For
Everyone -- A Letter From The Special Forces Community Concerning
The Second Amendment -- Guns and Games -- What India Taught Me About
How to End Hunger -- Brooklyn College's Academic Freedom
Increasingly Threatened Over Israel Event -- The Baffling
Response to Arctic Climate Change -- The Growing Wealth Gap Is
Unsustainable -- In Egypt's tumult, the anarchist "Black Bloc" steps
to the fore to engage the state -- Urgent preparations in South
Korea over North’s third nuclear test fears -- Henson Ong at
Gun Violence Prevention Public Hearing - Hartford, CT -- Police
State USA: Military Drills Across America -- Iran unveils newest
fighter jet -- All data stored on cloud computing services can
be accessed by US government without a warrant -- Don’t
Photoshop Obama -- The Biggest Currency Printers Will Be The
Biggest Losers -- 12 Cities Where You Can Get Great Deals On
Foreclosures In 2013 -- President Assad accuses Israel of
destabilizing Syria -- American Sniper author Chris Kyle
shot dead in Texas -- Washington OK's Israeli Aggression on
Syria -- Iran's Legal Right to Enrich Uranium Unchallenged --
How One Chipotle Worker Worked Her Way Up To $99,000 Per Year
Freedom's Phoenix Digital Magazine February 1st, 2013 Edition NOW AVAILABLE
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News Link • Drug War
US military expands its drug war in Latin America
02-03-2013
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AP
The crew members aboard the USS Underwood could see through their night goggles what was happening on the fleeing go-fast boat: Someone was dumping bales. When the Navy guided-missile frigate later dropped anchor in Panamanian waters on that sunny Au
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News Link • TAXES: Federal
Happy 100th Birthday U.S. Federal Income Tax
02-3-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
On February 3rd, 1913, one of the two most historic events in US history took place: the ratification of the 16th amendment, which established Congress’ right to impose a Federal income tax on Americans, and overturned Article I, Section 9 of the US
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Prince George’s considers copyright policy that takes ownership of students’ work
02-03-2013
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Washington Post
A proposal by the Prince George’s County Board of Education to copyright work created by staff and students for school could mean that a picture drawn by a first-grader, a lesson plan developed by a teacher or an app created by a teen would belong to
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News Link • Immigration
Senate plan would give Napolitano the final say on border security
02-03-2013
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The Hill
Under a bipartisan Senate framework, Democrats say, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano would have final say over whether the border is secure enough to put 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship.
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News Link • Police State
Big brother to log your drinking habits and waist size
02-03-2013
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Daily Mail
The data includes weight, cholesterol levels, body mass index, pulse rate, family health history, alcohol consumption and smoking status. Diagnosis of everything from cancer to heart disease to mental illness would be covered.
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News Link • Education: Government Schools
Florence student suspended over picture of gun
02-03-2013
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ABC News (video)
A high school student said he was suspended because of a picture of a gun. Daniel McClaine Jr., a freshman, said he saved the picture as his desktop background on his school-issued computer. A teacher noticed it and turned him in.
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News Link • Obama Administration
White House Warns: Don't Photoshop Obama Gun Pic
02-03-2013
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Breitbart
This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way
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News Link • Government
Nebraska Lt. Gov. Sheehy quits after revelation of 2,000 improper late-night calls
02-03-2013
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Rawstory
Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy (R) resigned on Saturday morning after a newspaper investigation revealed that he had made thousands of late-night phone calls to women who were not his wife over a four-year period.
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News Link • Housing
No-money-down mortgages are back
02-03-2013
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It’s 100% financing"the same strategy that pushed many homeowners into foreclosure during the housing bust. Banks say these loans are safer: They’re almost exclusively being offered to clients with sizable assets, and they often require two forms of
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News Link • Government
Chicago murder rate far worse than during Al Capone 'gangland' days
02-03-2013
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ABC News (video)
In this I-Team report, Chicago's rising murder rate in a new context, how the numbers of shooting deaths compare to the city's most notorious crime era, the one that has tarnished Chicago's reputation around the world for a century.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Gas Prices Heading Up Again
02-03-2013
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CBS News (video)
Hold on to your wallets: we are in the middle of a gas price spike, and experts say it will only get worse.
CBS 2′s Courtney Gousman learned several factors might push the price in our area to more than $4 a gallon.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
169,000 Americans Drop Out of Labor Force in January As Unemployment Ticks Up
02-03-2013
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CNS News
The number of Americans not in the labor force grew by 169,000 in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest jobs report. There were 89 million of them last month.
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Scottish man calls police on McDonald's
02-03-2013
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upi.com
A Scottish man called police after he said workers at a McDonald's fast-food restaurant were ignoring him, police said.
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News Link • Weird/Offbeat News
Meth hidden in papayas mailed to Alaska
02-03-2013
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upi.com
An Anchorage man was arrested and charged for receiving in the mail more than four pounds of methamphetamine hidden inside six papayas, officials said.
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News Link • Israel
Israel suggests responsibility for Syria airstrike
02-03-2013
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Associated Press
Israel's defense minister strongly signaled Sunday that his country was behind an airstrike in Syria last week,
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News Link • Iran
Iranian Oops: US violated own sanctions buying Tehran's oil for war?
02-03-2013
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youtube
There is a high probability that US sanctions against Iran have been violated by its own army. Part of the $1.55 billion in fuel the US bought from Turkmenistan for the Afghan army in the last five years may have originated in Iran.
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt on Edge: 'A few handshakes won't change desperate reality'
02-03-2013
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youtube
Even if the Egyptians manage to bring down another president - that won't instantly end their woes, says independent political analyst Dan Glazebrook.
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News Link • Gun Rights
NRA Chief LaPierre: You Can't Trust This White House
02-03-2013
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youtube
Chief Executive of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre, told Chris Wallace today on FOX News Sunday, "You can't trust these people."
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News Link • Internet
The World’s Tweets Light Up the Globe in Stunning Live Visualization
02-03-2013
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Wired.com
It’s simple, but lovely. Web designer Franck Ernewein‘s real-time Twitter visualization, Tweetping, drops a bright pixel at the location of every tweet in the world, starting as soon as you open the page.
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News Link • Misinformation
Shocking Numbers That Show The Media Is Lying To You About Unemployment In America
02-03-2013
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Prison Planet
Did you know that the percentage of the U.S. labor force that is employed has continually been falling since 2006 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
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News Link • Health and Physical Fitness
Government and Top University Studies: Fluoride Lowers IQ and Causes Other Health Problems
02-03-2013
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Prison Planet
Dentists Haven’t Read the Studies
Preface: This post doesn’t discuss any conspiracy theories. It simply presents a scientific review of the studies by mainstream sources on fluoride.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Afghan government responds to torture charges
02-03-2013
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aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera visits detention facilities accused of torture by UN and rights agencies.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Egypt
Egypt to probe police brutality case
02-03-2013
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aljazeera.com
Interior minister says case of man stripped naked and beaten by police while cameras were rolling will be investigated.
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News Link • Cuba
Amid domestic change, Cubans march to the polls
02-03-2013
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Reuters
Cubans went to the polls on Sunday to elect a Communist Party-selected slate of 612 deputies to the National Assembly at a time of change in how they live and work but not in how they vote.
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Texas man arraigned on murder charges in shooting of "American Sniper"
02-03-2013
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Reuters
The man accused of gunning down former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, a prominent military sniper, and a second man at a Texas shooting range has been arraigned on two counts of capital murder, the Texas Department of Public Safety said on Sunday.
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News Link • Whistleblowers
Government Protects Criminals by Attacking Whistleblowers
02-03-2013
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Prison Planet
It’s now obvious to everyone that " even though criminal fraud dominates Wall Street " the Obama administration refuses to prosecute white collar crime.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Rev. Jesse Jackson Says Gun Supporters Are Domestic Terrorists
02-03-2013
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Prison Planet
During an interview with the Wall Street Journal posted on, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said “anti-government people” espousing what amounts to a “Confederate ideology” will engage in terrorist activities unless the government enacts draconian laws.
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News Link • Israel
Obama green light for Israel to strike Iranian-Syrian-Hizballah military links
02-03-2013
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Prison Planet
The air raid over the Jamraya military complex near Damascus Wednesday, Jan. 30, attributed to Israel by Western sources was Israeli’s first assault on the Syrian-Hizballah military compact forged between Bashar Assad and Hassan Nasrallah.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Ernest Hancock - SAFE, Second Amendment is For Everyone
02-03-2013
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youtube
#183 Libertarians are "impractical" - Ernest Hancock & Bill Still
To hear the full podcast: http://adamvstheman.com/podcast
Please address love mail to adam@adamvstheman.com
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News Link • Gun Rights
A Letter From The Special Forces Community Concerning The Second Amendment
02-03-2013
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asmdss.com
After a getting a "WARNO" previously, ASMDSS and Stolen Valor received this letter from members of the SOF community on their concerns for America and the Second Amendment.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Guns and Games
02-03-2013
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Common Dreams
Ryan Smith’s apartment has two giant wide-screen televisions and three video gaming systems: an X-box and Playstation in his bedroom, and a Wii in the living room.
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News Link • Agriculture
What India Taught Me About How to End Hunger
02-03-2013
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Common Dreams
Back in the ’60s, Frances Moore Lappé realized that hunger is caused by a scarcity of democracy, not food. Then, a collective of courageous women farmers showed her how to change that.
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News Link • Israel - Palestine
Brooklyn College's Academic Freedom Increasingly Threatened Over Israel Event
02-03-2013
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Common Dreams
New York politicians join the Alan Dershowitz-led campaign to dictate to colleges what academic events they can hold
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News Link • Climate Change
The Baffling Response to Arctic Climate Change
02-03-2013
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Common Dreams
The Arctic may seem like a distant place, just as the most extreme consequences of our wasteful use of fossil fuels may appear to be in some distant future. Both are closer than most of us realize.
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
The Growing Wealth Gap Is Unsustainable
02-03-2013
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Common Dreams
The ever-increasing many who are struggling cannot support a structure that favours a tiny number of the very rich
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News Link • Revolutions, Rebellions & Uprisings
In Egypt's tumult, the anarchist "Black Bloc" steps to the fore to engage the state
02-03-2013
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Brietbart.com
In both tactics and outward appearance, the Egyptian Black Bloc shares much in common with their Western counterparts, including the use of Guy Fawkes masks seen in Anonymous and Occupy Wall Street protests.
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News Link • World News
Urgent preparations in South Korea over North’s third nuclear test fears
02-03-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
South Korean leader Lee Myung-Bak has urged the country’s officials to ‘stand well prepared’ for a third nuclear test by North Korea, according to Yonhap news agency. The test is believed to take place before Lunar New Year starts on February 10.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Henson Ong at Gun Violence Prevention Public Hearing - Hartford, CT
02-03-2013
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www.youtube.com
Incredible Speech on Gun Violence
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News Link • Police State
Police State USA: Military Drills Across America
2-3-2013
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Free Press Publications
Police and military are conducting scary drills that involve firing blanks in schools and downtown areas. ThinkProgress.com reports (http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/31/1523091/guns-lockdown-blanks) , “Students at a high school in Illinois ex
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News Link • Iran
Iran unveils newest fighter jet
02-03-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
Iran unveiled on Saturday its newest combat jet, a domestically manufactured fighter-bomber that military officials claim can evade radar.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a ceremony broadcast on state TV that building the Qaher-313, or Domin
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News Link • Surveillance
All data stored on cloud computing services can be accessed by US government without a warrant
02-03-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
According to reports, all personal information stored on major cloud computing services can be spied on by US agencies without users’ knowledge or even a search warrant.
This is all reportedly being done under the recently reauthorized Foreign Int
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News Link • Humor
Don’t Photoshop Obama
02-03-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
You know not all is lost when reverence for the occupiers of the White House is entirely shunned in favor of disdain for the dictator via symbolic fun. According to Breitbart, the White House released a photo of Obama skeet shooting at Camp David, wi
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News Link • Currencies
The Biggest Currency Printers Will Be The Biggest Losers
02-03-2013
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Business Insider
In Switzerland, it's not just the clocks that are cuckoo. Over the past four years Swiss politicians and central bankers have gone on an unprecedented buying spree of foreign exchange reserves.
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News Link • Misinformation
Here Are 12 Scientific Findings That Were Actually Faked
02-03-2013
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Business Insider
1. In 2002, the BBC aired a report about German scientists who discovered that blond hair would be extinct in the next couple centuries due to being a recessive trait.
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News Link • Housing
12 Cities Where You Can Get Great Deals On Foreclosures In 2013
02-03-2013
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Business Insider
Foreclosure activity increased in 120 of the 212 biggest metropolitan real estates, according to RealtyTrac's latest foreclosure report.
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News Link • Israel
President Assad accuses Israel of destabilising Syria
02-03-2013
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bbc.co.uk
Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad has accused Israel of trying to "destabilise" his country.
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News Link • Death
American Sniper author Chris Kyle shot dead in Texas
02-03-2013
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bbc.co.uk
Iraq veteran and ex-US Navy seal Chris Kyle, known as the deadliest sniper in US history, has been shot dead on a Texas shooting range, reports say.
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News Link • Food
Genetic Roulette: Free Screening Until Feb 3rd, Vote For Best Awareness Film
02-03-2013
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http://chrisinmaryville.net/
If there’s only one more documentary you see in the remainder of your life: Make sure it’s Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives. World renown genetically modified organism (GMO) expert Jefferey Smith, who heads The Institute for Responsible Tech
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News Link • Philosophy: Libertarianism
This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - February 2nd & 3rd 2013
02-02-2013
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LewRockwell.com
The Summary Execution of Mundanes by the Government, Will Grigg on the gun violence you never hear about / What It's Like To Work for Ron Paul / I'm Selling Stocks and Buying Gold, Marc Faber explains why / AR-15 or AK-47?
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Opinion • Humor
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News
SEMI-NEWS: A Satire of Recent News, February 3, 2013 Edition
02-01-2013
John Semmens
Democrats Debate Nuances of Gun Control
Vice-President Joe Biden, the man tapped by President Obama to lead his Administration's efforts to push gun control legislation, acknowledged that “Nothing we are going to do is fundamentally going to alter
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News Link • Justice and Judges
In Amerika Law No Longer Exists: The Extermination of Truth
02-01-2013
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The Daily Bell
In the 21st century Americans have experienced an extraordinary collapse in the rule of law and in their constitutional protections.
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News Link • Gun Rights
Department of Homeland Security Targets Gun Collector
02-01-2013
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Prison Planet
KRQE in Albuquerque, New Mexico, reports that the Department of Homeland Security " the federal agency initially established to protect the United States from terrorists and respond to natural disasters " has used its ICE division to bust a gun colle
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News Link • WAR: About that War
The “Long War” Rhetoric is Back
02-01-2013
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counterpunch.org
The bloodshed at the In Amenas gas facility in Algeria has brought into focus the deteriorating situation in north and west Africa and the role of France in the region.
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News Link • Military
Guantanamo 9/11 trial judge orders hidden censors unplugged
02-01-2013
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http://www.mcclatchydc.com, Carol Rosenberg
The military judge presiding at the Sept. 11 trial Thursday ordered the government to unplug any outside censors who can reach into his courtroom and silence the war crimes tribunal.
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News Link • Afghanistan
Top US General in Afghanistan Sees ‘Uncertain Future’
02-01-2013
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http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser
General Allen acknowledges what has become a virtual consensus, that the war in Afghanistan has failed
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News Link • Whistleblowers
CIA 'whistleblower' sentenced to prison
02-01-2013
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aljazeera.com
Alan Fisher is an award-winning correspondent who has reported from across the world.
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